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Yesterday afternoon, a large group, most dressed in black, gathered on Ho Plaza under a tree strung with six nooses.
The group, consisting of students, faculty and members of the Ithaca community, was gathered for a demonstration held by the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., and the Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., in support of the Jena Six, each represented by a noose.
Racial tensions erupted in violence in Jena, Louisiana last August, when a group of black students sat under a tree at Jena High School where white students typically sat.

Some time between September 2006 and September 2007, Facebook became an evil, corrupting medium of social destruction driven to blackmail America’s future with concrete proof of its drunken stupidity. Or at least that’s the impression you’ll get by reading any article about Facebook on any college campus over the past year. For some reason, columnists at college newspapers across the country have found it necessary to lecture their readers on the dangers of the wildly popular website—taking every opportunity to patronize Facebook, to condescendingly bash every idiosyncrasy presumably in order to gain some sort of intellectual high ground over the band of aloof savages previously known as Facebook users. I am not one of these writers.